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Home > My Ancestors
> Irish > Timeline: 1645-1749
- 1645: Teague Jones (d. 1676) a Freeman of Yarmouth, MA is fined
for refusing to take allegiance to the British Crown.
- 1654: 400 Irish arrive on the ship Goodfellow. They
were kidnapped from Kinsale, County Cork and sold
at Ipswich.
- 1676: Residents of Dublin send ship Katherine to Boston
with money, food, and supplies during the King Phillips
War between Native Americans and Colonists.
- 1688: Goody Anne Glover is hanged in Boston as a witch. However,
Cotton Mather claims that the real reason for her
execution is for being "a scandalous old Irish woman,
very poor, a Roman Catholic, and obstinate in idolatry."
- 1700: By 1700, 599 Irish names can be found in New England
records. Massachusetts General Court passes a law
forbidding any Catholic priest to be present in the
colony under penalty of life imprisonment.
- 1717-1720: 2,600 Scotch-Irish from Ulster arrive in Massachusetts.
The Governor complains about the public burden caused
by "so many poor people from abroad especially those
that come from Ireland." The Massachusetts General
Court tells the Irish immigrants that they must leave
the colony within seven months.
- 1726: Jeremiah Smith (b. 1705 Ireland) founds the first papermaking
factory in the United States in Dorchester.
- 1732: Gov. Jonathan Belcher tries to arrest a priest after
Bostonians panic when Catholics are rumored to celebrate
St. Patrick's Day.
- 1737: Founding of the Charitable Irish Society by twenty-six"gentlemen
of the Irish nation," making it the oldest Irish group
in the United States.
See 1750-1849
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